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Letters

The sleeping bear

To the editor, Your Thumbs Up/Down in the Saturday/Sunday September 25-26 edition made some valid points, but was also misleading. Your article made it seem like some mysterious “group of people“ suddenly showed up at the ISD 88 school board meeting last Thursday. This “group of ...

What now?

To the editor: At least fifty five people took time out of their evening to attend the school board meeting on September 23, and many were planning to address the board. The room chosen for the meeting had a capacity of 49 if used as a classroom even though there were many more than that in ...

Understand and accept transgender youth

To the editor: The New Ulm Human Rights Commission would like to respond to the letter by Gigi Rysdahl published on 9/22 addressing transgender youth. Transgender individuals are protected from discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. So much damage can be done with words, and this ...

Who is to blame?

To the editor: What happened to the America I grew up in, in the last 9 months? I am 83 years old and have never seen the disasters as I have in the last 9 months. I can’t think of one thing that Joe Biden has done that was good for our country! Everything he has attempted to do has turned ...

Young ones led astray

To the editor: What happens to a garden left unattended? A beautiful patch with ordered rows of vegetables and flowers becomes overgrown with weeds, thorns, and thistles. When we leave our young children to monitor themselves regarding sexual identity and sexual options, we are setting them ...

Comparisons

To the editor: It was interesting to see the side by side letters to the editor in the 9/14 Journal regarding COVID. One was filled with information on the vaccines such as some of the history of their development, how the vaccine works in your body, and whether they think it’s safe for ...